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Today I was hit by a truck.
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Crabs!
I went to Maman's house today and her family fed me the most amazing crab ever. Better than Singapore chili crab, better than anything I've had in the Philippines, and better than-- You know, I've never had Canadian crab, but I bet you that it doesn't even hold a candle to what I had this afternoon. AMAZING.To get there, of course, required driving ( Read more... ) -
Self-Made Narrative in Gaming
By now most gamers have been introduced to the concept of a silent protagonist. In the JRPG genre, a silent protagonist is one that conveys the will of the player but maintains a 'core personality' that emerges in limited dialogue options and linear storytelling. Characters such as Crono (Chrono Trigger), Minato (Persona 3), and McDohl (Suikoden) ( Read more... ) -
My life is so hard as a man.
In this post, 'men cannot talk about gender issues because men do not have problems the way women do,' 'any problem a man has is trivialized by the plight of women,' and other sweeping generalizations.
I want to quit having a gender. Like at all. Is this even possible? It is too much of a hassle defining people by their genitals. -
Emotional Investment and Vidya Gaming
I've been sick this week, which I think I mentioned the last time. Even if I didn't, let me begin by saying that I am now better. Hurray. What this means, though, is that I did not do very much this week; I hunkered down and played video games ( Read more... ) -
Quick summary of last week
This has been a rollercoaster of a week, thus the lack of updates. Here it is in brief. I lost $500 in work clothes to a bleach accident, lost 320GB of backed up memory to a freak accident, found a new hairdresser that does an amazing job and is willing to trim my beard, and booked an impromptu flight to Singapore in November to watch JAM Project ( Read more... ) -
Two Months Without A Day Off.
Today was difficult ( Read more... ) -
So I rearranged tables and washed my hands 25 times in ten minutes. AWESOME.
For all the things I feel unsafe talking about on LJ, students are not one of them. So long as I speak of them in abstraction, I have little to no chance of being discovered--not only because my real name is obscured, but also because LJ has become, much like me, something of a dinosaur. Compared to MySpace and Facebook and others, Livejournal (and ( Read more... ) -
I thought about writing today.
The result was immediate indigestion and malingering nausea. No, this was no ambitious thought or mind toward my more lofty of projects-the endless worlds and journal after journal of unpublished world notes and character drabbles-nor was it guilt felt in the direction of my many, many unanswered tags. What crossed my mind during the subsequent ( Read more... ) -
And suddenly I'm a teacher again.
I've been tired lately, much too tired to have made any sort of meaningful recording over the last couple of weeks. It's the sort of fatigue that creeps up on you, that's difficult to notice until it's the end of the day and you come back from the classroom full of plans and ideas, only to collapse uselessly for hours on the bed or in the chair. ( Read more... )